The democratic socialist Melat Kiros unseated the long-serving US representative Diana DeGette in Colorado’s primary elections held on Tuesday, the latest in a string of high-profile victories for the party’s insurgent left.
The Associated Press reported that Kiros had defeated DeGette for the Democratic nomination in the deep-blue first congressional district centered on Denver. Kiros’s triumph came a week after New York voters unseated two Democratic congressional incumbents and replaced a third who was retiring with candidates who had campaigned on standing up to Israel amid accusations that it was carrying out a genocide in Gaza.
Because it’s used in multiple contradictory ways. Sometimes it means anyone who defends the idea of Israel existing in any form or who criticizes Hamas or other pro-Palestinian factions. Sometimes it’s taken to mean belief in a Jewish ethnostate where Palestinians are to be expelled or even exterminated. And some people try to make it mean both at the same time to smear their ideological opponents. This is a fact of the way the word is used and one person’s statements or actions don’t really change that.
He is super old. I guess if that’s your argument maybe. If he doesn’t retire he may see a challenger if he becomes incapable of fulfilling his duties any longer.
Hopefully he will start promoting a successor before that time.